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This classic children's game-connecting two cups with a string-demonstrates sound's ability to travel through air vs through a solid.

By using watercolor paints to practice writing letters, sentences, and math problems, your child will practice first grade skills in his "Sidewalk School."

How do we know that air exists when we can't see it, taste it, or touch it? Here's a classic experiment that will teach your kid some basics of aerodynamics!

This Thanksgiving, make a pine cone turkey that can double as a personalized place setting for each family member.

Invite the hungry caterpillar over to your house by creating a larger-than-life, colorful caterpillar friend out of balloons!

Teach a lesson in the math and art with the concept of symmetry, while making a delightful cut-paper shadow pumpkin for Halloween!

Challenge your young dinosaur lover to examine dinosaur footprints and then create their own dinosaur fossil in this hands-on activity.

Craft butterflies from coffee filters in this sweet spring craft project!

Reinforce your child’s understanding of the alphabet by helping them construct all of the letters using pipe cleaners.

Get a leg up on counting concepts with this project where art and math collide.

Problem-solving skills can be practiced and strengthened over time with puzzles such as Tangrams! In this activity, your child will discuss problem-solving strategies and practice using these strategies with Tangram puzzles.

Grow a garden with an environmentally-friendly twist by using plant scraps that usually get thrown away.

Make going back to school fun with this surprising pop up book, perfect for first graders!

Not only is homemade wrapping paper pretty, but by experimenting with decorative tools, kids are also doing science, art, and small-motor muscle building.

Combine science with reading and art to help your first grader create an attractive holiday gift for a beloved friend or relative.

Make a fun refrigerator graph with your first grader in order to help her develop those crucial graphing skills, while engaging with the whole family.

Here's a fun Fourth of July craft that will delight kids of many ages.

Here's a way to bring young children into the process of preparing healthy school lunches, and build up early literacy skills while they're at it!

Support your first grader's counting and reading skills while laughing and running in this fun playground game.

Make a "feeling meter" that helps your first grader read key feeling words and communicate his emotions accurately to you.

Help your child make a beautiful homemade sandcastle that will last!

Your kid will be captivated as she watches liquids change color before her very eyes during this fun science project that introduces some chemistry basics.

The fish most kids see is usually filleted, and it's hard to see how it came from a lake or sea. This cool gyotaku activity blends life science with art!

Help your learner develop her fine motor and communication skills with this fun and festive fall activity.

Science fair project idea that examines different physical characteristics of a chosen animal. Make educated guesses about evolution based on animal's form.